gamer regret

gamer regretn.— «The dirty secret of gamers is that we wrestle with this dilemma all the time. We’re often gripped by what I call “gamer regret”—a sudden, horrifying sense of emptiness when we muse on all the other things we could have done with our game time.» —“Games Without Frontiers: Battle With ‘Gamer Regret’ Never Ceases” by Clive Thompson Wired Sept. 10, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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